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Exploring coastal Campbeltown |
Lying at the head of the shel-tered waters of Campbeltown loch the royal burgh of the same name was founded in 1607 and is in every sense of the word a Campbell town. The 7th Earl of Argyll was its benefactor as part of a ‘plantation’ policy to import Protestant settlers mainly from Ayrshire and Renfrewshire to bring peace to a turbulent area.
The Campbeltown Cross which is the finest example of a late medieval carved stone cross, dates from 1380 and was brought from Kilkivan near Machrihanish to serve as a market cross.
Kintyre has a rich archaeological history. In the Campbeltown Museum are Mesolithic flints, Neolithic pottery from chambered cairns and finds from Bronze Age cists including a jet necklace. The underlying geology of the area consists of important areas of red sandstone which was used to build the old tenements of Campbeltown, while coal measures were exploited from the time of James IV until 1967, when the post war Argyll Colliery at Machrihanish was closed.
The mining village of Drumlemble was con
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